Make workplace learning part of the strategy

A renaissance in workplace learning has arrived and more employers need to start seeing its value to grow the business’s talent pool and boost its bottom-line. According to a research study conducted by auditing firm Deloitte headlined: The exponential...

Use payroll to keep employees inspired, engaged

The payroll professional has access to a vast repository of knowledge that can fundamentally change how employees engage with their income and the organisation. While the payroll expert may innately understand how tax, medical aid and budgets fluctuate, for the...

Neglecting the era of knowledge workers

Over the past 40 years our workforce has transcended from doing labour with their hands to working with their brains. We haven’t got the slightest clue what knowledge work is and that’s an enormous problem, writes lifehacker, international guest speaker...

Roles (not jobs) rule in the digital era

It is true to say that much of our identity comes from our jobs. Our economy builds on these and the types of jobs that are in demand (and their distribution and compensation) are often a proxy for what society considers important. The trouble is, jobs as a term feels...

Expat pay more complicated than the exchange rate

Experts trained in how to balance the expectations of international workers with the strategic, financial and practical constraints faced by the employer are in high demand. The driver of this demand is the technology that makes a larger international mobile workforce...

Do’s and don’ts of hiring millennials

Much has been said over the last few years about the millennial workers entering the workplace and how this generation is going to redefine and reshape the workplace of the future. But is this getting organisations in a panic over changing their hiring policies and...